The Dundee-born actor, 78, is a long-standing supporter of Scottish independence and has often been vocal in his criticism of Brexit.
When quizzed about the political parties’ manifestos on BBC One’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, Cox said the SNP ‘could be backing away from the notion of independence’ ahead of it announcing its July 4 election pledges on Wednesday.
He added: ‘I don’t know if Scotland (has) backed off, but I think that it’s something that worries me, because I still… believe in independence.’
Cox, who starred as the fearsome patriarch Logan Roy in Succession, said he believes that if Scotland was independent it should be ‘part of these islands’ and co-operative with the rest of the UK
He added: ‘I do believe we need a new kind system.
‘I don’t believe in the United Kingdom – I believe that we should have a sort of united federation with these islands, that each… country should be independent, but come together to support the whole, instead of things being dictated, as we find in Scotland (things are done) on our behalf, that we have very little say.’
He referred to the referendum in which Scotland voted to stay in Europe while the majority of the UK voted to leave.
Cox also said his ‘main thing is… still the demon that we don’t talk about, which is Brexit’ before citing economic figures.
He added: ‘It seems to me that we are still suffering from that, and we’ve not done anything about it.
‘So when we talk about other things, we can’t really talk in terms of where we are because we are suffer
